Monday, October 29, 2018

The war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the very stars themselves, faced destruction, cold-blooded, brutal, and worse, random. The Idirans fought for their Faith; the Culture for its moral right to exist. Principles were at stake. There could be no surrender. Within the cosmic conflict, an individual crusade. Deep within a fabled labyrinth on a barren world, a Planet of the Dead proscribed to mortals, lay a fugitive Mind. Both the Culture and the Idirans sought it. It was the fate of Horza, the Changer, and his motley crew of unpredictable mercenaries, human and machine, actually to find it, and with it their own destruction.

Monday, October 22, 2018

In 2198, one hundred and fifty years after the desperate wars that destroyed an overpopulated Earth, Man lives precariously on a hundred hastily-established colony worlds and in the seven giant Ships that once ferried men to the stars. Mia Havero's Ship is a small closed society. It tests its children by casting them out to live or die in a month of Trial in the hostile wilds of a colony world. Mia Havero's Trial is fast approaching and in the meantime she must learn not only the skills that will keep her alive but the deeper courage to face herself and her world. Published originally in 1968, Alexei Panshin's Nebula Award-winning classic has lost none of its relevance, with its keen exploration of societal stagnation and the resilience of youth.

Dark. Romantic. Frigidly beautiful. Not all fairy tales are meant for children.A Hauntingly Romantic Winter is a collection of new, previously unpublished fairy tales. This winter, curl up under the blankets, drink some hot cocoa, and let The Otherworld’s writers immerse you into a brand new world. Magic, love, and mystery abound in this adult-themed fairy tale book. Let the freezing cold, the glittering frost, and the howling wind be softened by a layer of dreamlike stories. Inside this collection, you will find warmth and shelter from the outside world, while entering magic lands filled with faeries, cryptic women lurking in forests, magical mirrors, archers and hunters on a quest for glory and more.Drift into this story collection and be ready to shiver with delight.--Fairy Tales... Not for kids...

Thursday, October 4, 2018

Wednesday, October 3, 2018

Writing is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to those who have none.
—Jules Renard

Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.
—Stephen King

Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too.
—Isabel Allende

Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.
—Stephen Fry

The highest duty of the writer, the composer, the artist, is to remain true to himself and let the chips fall where they may.
—John F. Kennedy

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!
—L. Frank Baum

Right now—whether you're in writing courses getting "paid" in credit for writing, or burdened and distracted by earning a living and changing diapers—figure out how to make writing an integral part of your life.
—Janet Burroway

You can't control the success or failure of a thing you work on. You can only control the thing you work on.
—Lin-Manuel Miranda

A story happens when two equally appealing forces, or characters, or ideas try to occupy the same place at the same time.
—Amy Hempel

Writing is not about the voices in your head, but the voices that make the great leap to the page.
—J.H. Glaze

Just keep moving forward and don't give a shit what people think. Do what you have to do for you.
—Johnny Depp